Cell Structure & Function
| 3.1.spi.1 | Identify the part that is missing from a specific plant or animal. |
Parts Is Parts - A Webquest in which students learn about plant parts and create a game or activity to teach others about plant parts. Meet the Plant Parts - Match the plant part drawings with the names. Parts of a Flower - From BBC- Take the flower apart and identify the parts. Plant Parts - A Quia activity - match the plant parts with the correct definition. |
| 3.1.spi.2 | Identify the part that belongs to a specific plant or animal. |
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| 3.1.spi.3 | Identify the function of specific plant and animal parts. |
Plant Parts - good information page with link to a Plant Parts game. |
Interactions Between Living Things & Their Environments
| 3.2.spi.1 | Distinguish between living and non-living things in an illustration. |
Living or Non-living Quiz - Determine if each picture shows a living or non-living thing. Classifying Living or Non-Living - a printable worksheet for determining if an object is living or non-living. |
| 3.2.spi.2 | Select the plants and animals found in a specific environment. |
Plant Adaptations - describes adaptations plants have made to live in various biomes. Link to a Plant Match game. |
| 3.2.spi.3 | Identify the sense used to collect specific information. |
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| 3.2.spi.4 | Identify the environment that has been impacted by pollutants. |
Food Production and Energy for Life
| 3.3.spi.1 | identify the basic needs of plants and animals. |
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| 3.3.spi.2 | Recognize that animals obtain their food by eating plants or other animals. |
Food Chains - BBC lesson, activity, and quiz. |
| 3.3.spi.3 | Recognize that plants use sunlight, water and air for photosynthesis. |
Making Food - a page from theMissouri Botanical Garden site that describes how plants make food-includes an animation. |
Heredity & Reproduction
| 3.4.spi.1 | Choose the diagram that depicts a parent with its offspring. |
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| 3.4.spi.2 | Select the illustration that shows an adult organism. |
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| 3.4.spi.3 | Select the illustration that shows how an organism changes as it matures. |
Diversity and Adaptation Among Living Things
| 3.5.spi.1 | Identify groups of similar organisms (i.e., plants and animals). |
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| 3.5.spi.2 | Identify an organism that belongs in a specific environment. |
Biology of Plants - |
| 3.5.spi.3 | Identify the characteristics that enable a specific plant and/or animal to survive in its environment. |
Adaptation & Competition - BBC review site - text and a few drawings cover how animals and plants adapt to their changing environment , extinction, and how humans affect environmental change. |
Biological Change
| 3.6.spi.1 | Identify an example, other than a dinosaur, of an extinct organism. |
Adaptation & Competition - BBC review site - text and a few drawings cover how animals and plants adapt to their changing environment , extinction, and how humans affect environmental change. |
| 3.6.spi.2 | Identify evidence used to determine that an organism previously existed. |
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| 3.6.spi.3 | Match the organism to the evidence for its former existence. |
| 3.7.spi.1 | Identify objects found in the day or nighttime sky. |
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| 3.7.spi.2 | identify the approximate time of day from a picture of the sun’s position in the sky. |
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| 3.7.spi.3 | Choose the appropriate tool for observing a specific distant object. |
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| 3.7.spi.4 | Identify the four basic phases of the moon. | Moon Phases - Information page about the moon phases - you can see what the moon is like daily. |
| 3.7.spi.5 | Identify the components of the solar system (e.g. planets, moons). | Solar System Desk - from iknowthat.com - information on each planet and an activity that explores the Milky Way. Ads |
| 3.8.spi.1 | Select appropriate clothing for a given weather condition. |
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| 3.8.spi.2 | Identify the season when given a description of weather, plants, and animals. | |
| 3.8.spi.3 | Match temperature, precipitation, wind speed and direction, and cloud conditions with different weather conditions. | Weather Desk - from IKnowThat.com. Ads |
| 3.8.spi.4 | Identify the appropriate tools to measure temperature and precipitation. |
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| 3.8.spi.5 | Match the cloud type to a specific kind of weather. |
| 3.9.spi.1 | Identify the labelled part of a map or illustration as a continent, ocean, lake, river, mountain, or island. |
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| 3.9.spi.2 | Select the illustration that identifies a specific geological feature. |
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| 3.9.spi.3 | Identify a geological feature given specific information. |
| 3.10.spi.1 | Identify an object as natural or man-made. |
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| 3.10.spi.2 | Recognize the properties used to identify specific Earth materials. |
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| 3.10.spi.3 | Identify methods for conserving natural resources. |
| 3.11.spi.1 | Identify that an unbalanced force is needed to change the direction of an object. |
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| 3.11.spi.2 | Select an object that would be attracted by a magnet. |
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| 3.11.spi.3 | Identify how weights affect a balance scale. |
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| 3.11.spi.4 | Select how surface characteristics affect the movement of an object. |
| 3.12.spi.1 | Select an object according to a particular property. |
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| 3.12.spi.2 | Order objects according to a specific property (e.g., longest to shortest, heaviest to lightest). |
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| 3.12.spi.3 | Identify appropriate tools for determining the weight or length of materials. |
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| 3.12.spi.4 | Identify an object when given its properties. |
| 3.13.spi.1 | Identify the effects of mixing two types of materials (e.g., salt and pepper). |
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| 3.13.spi.2 | Choose features associated with physical changes. |
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| 3.13.spi.3 | Identify methods for separating mixtures. |
| 3.14.spi.1 | Identify the source of the Earth’s heat and light energy. |
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| 3.14.spi.2 | Identify how sounds are produced. |
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| 3.14.spi.3 | Identify the illustration that demonstrates the effects of the sun on various materials. |